Vice-minister Yván Gil denounces interventionist foreign policy of the US government - MPPRE

Vice-minister Yván Gil denounces interventionist foreign policy of the US government

As worrisome described the Vice-minister for Europe of the People’s Power Ministry for Foreign Relations, Yván Gil, the treatment that the United States government makes of its foreign policy and the pressure exerted on countries like Venezuela, which recently suffered a new attack against a Guri substation affecting the national electricity system leaving much of the country without electricity. These statements were issued by the diplomat in an interview with a team of Spanish Television (TVE), who are in the country to verify the reality of Venezuela, in the midst of excessive attacks by the administration of Donald Trump. According to Gil, the United States is governed by a class that is capable of curtailing the fundamental rights of human beings, violating international law, peace and sovereignty of peoples to be free and independent. Despite the siege that Venezuelans live, motivated by the insistence of the US government to seize the wealth of Venezuela, Gil said that countries should be vigilant and be concerned with the US’s handling of its foreign policy regarding Latin America, with emphasis on the South American nation, where Trump and his company do not rule out a military intervention to overthrow the Constitutional government of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, legitimately elected on May 20 by popular mandate. Also, the Venezuelan Vice-minister, considered as aberrant the analogy made by the security adviser of the White House, John Bolton, who said that the economic and financial coercion against the people and government of Venezuela is “like the pressure exerted by Darth Vader – fictional character from the movie Star Wars – to hang someone”. In this regard, Yván Gil said that the government of the United States has confessed its direct participation in the siege that weighs on the Venezuelan people, its government and institutions. When asked about the role played by the European Union (EU) with respect to Venezuela, Gil expressed that the position assumed by the governments of Western Europe “is very regrettable, it is a nonsense of foreign policy and its relations with Latin America. The only justification we find for this is that the EU has put itself at the tail of the interests of the United States due to various pressures”. Finally, the Vice-minister called on the European Union to disengage from the dangerous interventionist policy promoted by US leaders.